300 Stickmen

The Messenger

2007-06-19T23:09:00.000-07:00

Pitch Panels for 300 Stickmen.
The short will focus on the first battle between the Stickmen and the Polygon army.

Dress Rehersal?

2007-06-14T23:49:00.000-07:00

The title is apt. Please keep in mind this is a rough draft.
For the final every aspect will have to be enhanced.
But this test makes me feel real confident.

Concept Art 101

2007-06-07T23:08:00.001-07:00

Some visual development for 300 stickmen.

Animation and Compositing Test

2007-06-04T21:39:00.001-07:00

This is a simple test to see what kinda motion I can get out of this.
The guy is a little stiff, but if I take some time then I can get some descent motion out of him. Not bad for a bunch of quick pics taken with a camera on sticks. I currently have to transfer them to the computer for assemblage. Kinda tedious but it doesn't stop stuff from happening...animation stuff.

Now a Kitchen Sink Composite. Meaning I threw a lot of elements together to see how close I can come to the first batch of Promo Posters. It came out a little dark but other than that I feel its on the right track.

A test I did last summer. I plan to use a similar techinque
for the Stickmen faces and lip-sync.

Pear Talk by ~juliusbernard on deviant ART

I should probably use this time to plug my software of choice(s).
Monkey Jam: Its free and PC
http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/download.html
and
Frame Thief: $40 bucks and your MAC solution.
http://www.framethief.com/

There are of course other choices but at a beginning stage these are the best around for the dollar, or lack of it.

Picture Gallery

2007-06-01T02:33:00.000-07:00

The first week of photos. Basically all lighting tests for compositing. Most of the first ones are the pics I used for the promo posters.

Power of the Stick.

...Lights Out.

Promo Posters

2007-05-29T02:00:00.000-07:00

Promo posters for visual development. I had fun doing all these. I'm very pleased with the look so far. If I can hold on to a level of abstraction, this could be really neat visually.

Test shots

2007-05-27T11:42:00.000-07:00

With the 2 pics I could use I made 2 promo posters. I plan to do a few more of these to help refine my green screen shooting. I need a bigger light!!! I also need to paint these guys up a bit I think. Can't wait to add the cape too.

Thanks go to my friend who came into SF last night but got lost in a no no bar, so I just kept working. Without his flake I couldn't have gotten this done. See my fundamentalist friends sin can lead to good. A little too much of a stretch there that was.

First photoshoot

2007-05-27T02:24:00.000-07:00

Took some pictures for a test. I still need to tweak the photography process for ideal green screen photography. First 6 pics came out terrible. After some adjustments I got some pics I could use.